Closing session from Innovate with Mark Beeson
- What direction are your feet pointing?
- If you turn your feet in a direction and day, after day take steps you will end up in the direction you are pointed.
- You cannot turn your feet in one direction and end up in a different direction if you continuously take steps.
- we have the tendency to think that if we keep going the direction we're going we'll end up in a new place
- we have to take responsibility and turn sometimes
- the direction you set your feet is most important
- we have to be intentional about pointing our feet and our lives to God
- we help people innovate to adapt to the things happening around them
- the direction of our feet matters
- Things happen
- to us
- in us
- with us
- for us
- by us
- You can't get what you could have until you let go of what you do have
- knowing the path and choosing the path are different
- the problem isn't getting information
- you used to have to apprentice
- we don't have to do that any more
- we go to leaders, mentors, and teachers to help us make sense of the information
- the challenge is to make sense of what's happening and then make good choices
- media piece about a church member's story (3:22)
- Great commentary on being for and with each other
- leaders need to be both with and for their staff
- staff need to be both with and for their staff
- Jesus was both with us and for us
- we need to get better
- work on your attitude or you'll hurt others
- work on relationships or others will hurt you
- work on your persistance or problems will defeat you
- work on your priorities or the insignificant will hamper you
- work on your credibility or no one will follow you
- if you don't get better and encourage others to do so, you will work with bozos
- some people won't learn
- just move on
- don't put them in charge of anything
- number 1 job of a Christian leader is to hear from God and bring that message back to the people of God
- people are not here to give you a successful ministry
- the people are your ministry